Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: add and use nfs_authsys_create

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

On 02/19/2010 06:05 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The current mount, umount and showmount code uses
> authunix_create_default to get an auth handle. The one provided by glibc
> returned a truncated list of groups when there were more than 16 groups.
> libtirpc however currently does an abort() in this case, which causes
> the program to crash and dump core.
> 
> nfs-utils just uses these auth handles for the MNT protocol, so the
> group list doesn't make a lot of difference here. Add a new function
> that creates an auth handle with a supplemental gids list that consists
> only of the primary gid. Have nfs-utils use that function anywhere that
> it currently uses authunix_create_default. Also, have the caller
> properly check for a NULL return from that function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> ---
>  support/include/nfsrpc.h    |    3 +++
>  support/nfs/rpc_socket.c    |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  utils/mount/network.c       |   15 ++++++++++++---
>  utils/showmount/showmount.c |    8 +++++++-
>  4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
>
Committed...

steved.